That made Theodore Roosevelt angry. Later, he said: If it were not for the high office I held, I would have taken him by the seat of the pants and the nape of the neck and thrown him out the window.
Small by North American standards, he was perfectly proportioned. Slightly balding at the forehead, his silver hair curved onto the collar of his pale blue shirt at the nape of his neck.
There was a strange familiarity-a weird familiarity in it that made the short hairs rise at the nape of his neck, and brought his upper lip into an involuntary snarl that bared his fighting fangs.
The Green Knight upon ground girds41him with care: Bows a bit with his head, and bares his flesh: His long lovely locks he laid over his crown, Let the naked nape for the need be shown.